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  • Intermediate Level Interviewing Skills: Integrating Oral History into Qualitative ResearchThis link opens in a new window
    Date: Tuesday, April 8, 2025
    Time: 1:00pm - 2:00pm
    Presenter: Anastasia Perez
    Location: Online
    Division: New Brunswick

    This intermediate-level workshop is designed for students and researchers looking to refine their interviewing skills and effectively incorporate oral history into qualitative research. We will explore best practices for conducting structured and semi-structured interviews, ethical considerations, data analysis techniques, and strategies for integrating interview data with other qualitative methods. Participants will gain insights into navigating complex interviews, handling sensitive topics, and ensuring rigor in qualitative research. This session is ideal for those with experience in research methods who want to enhance their ability to collect and analyze rich, narrative-driven data. This workshop will be conducted by Anastasia Perez, Qualitative Research Methods Graduate Specialist, New Brunswick Libraries.

  • Data Sources 1 (major data resources, locating data, with focus on diversity and data for minoritized and underrepresented groups)This link opens in a new window
    Date: Thursday, April 10, 2025
    Time: 3:00pm - 4:30pm
    Presenter: Ryan Womack
    Location: Online
    Division: New Brunswick

    Overview of major data resources, methods of locating data, with focus on diversity and data for minoritized and underrepresented groups

    Workshop conducted via Zoom.  Register to receive the Zoom link with instructions on how to connect.

    Supplemental materials are available at https://libguides.rutgers.edu/data_topics

    Instructor: Ryan Womack

     

  • Data Science Basics: Your questions answered!This link opens in a new window
    Date: Monday, April 14, 2025
    Time: 10:00am - 12:00pm
    Presenter: Burlyn Andall-Blake
    Location: Online
    Division: New Brunswick

    Bring your questions about coding to this open session! Questions about coding in Python, R, SQL, and Git will be answered. Other questions related to coding or job searching as a student are also welcome. Feel free to submit your questions in advance to Burlyn Andall-Blake at bra43@scarletmail.rutgers.edu, or just drop in with your questions. While this is an informal session, we do ask that you register in advance to receive the Zoom link.

  • Building Intelligent Recommendation SystemsThis link opens in a new window
    Date: Monday, April 14, 2025
    Time: 2:00pm - 3:30pm
    Presenter: Tanya Khanna
    Location: Online
    Division: New Brunswick

    Dive into the fascinating world of recommender systems, the backbone of personalized experiences in today’s digital age. In this workshop, you’ll uncover how platforms like Netflix, Amazon, and Spotify predict what users want. Participants will gain insights into popular algorithms, including collaborative and content-based filtering, and apply these techniques to create intelligent recommendation solutions.

    Workshop conducted via Zoom. Register to receive the Zoom link with instructions on how to connect.

    Supplemental materials are available at https://libguides.rutgers.edu/datascience/python

    Instructor: Tanya Khanna

  • Intermediate Level Interviewing Skills: Integrating Oral History into Qualitative ResearchThis link opens in a new window
    Date: Tuesday, April 15, 2025
    Time: 1:00pm - 2:00pm
    Presenter: Anastasia Perez
    Location: Online
    Division: New Brunswick

    This intermediate-level workshop is designed for students and researchers looking to refine their interviewing skills and effectively incorporate oral history into qualitative research. We will explore best practices for conducting structured and semi-structured interviews, ethical considerations, data analysis techniques, and strategies for integrating interview data with other qualitative methods. Participants will gain insights into navigating complex interviews, handling sensitive topics, and ensuring rigor in qualitative research. This session is ideal for those with experience in research methods who want to enhance their ability to collect and analyze rich, narrative-driven data. This workshop will be conducted by Anastasia Perez, Qualitative Research Methods Graduate Specialist, New Brunswick Libraries.

  • R Data Wrangling with dplyr, tidyr, readr, and moreThis link opens in a new window
    Date: Thursday, April 17, 2025
    Time: 3:00pm - 4:30pm
    Presenter: Ryan Womack
    Location: Online
    Division: New Brunswick

    Some of the tidyverse's most powerful features are its abilities to import, filter, and otherwise manipulate data.  This session reviews major packages within the tidyverse that relate to the essential data handling steps required before (and during) data analysis.

    Workshop conducted via Zoom.  Register to receive the Zoom link with instructions on how to connect.

    Supplemental materials are available at https://libguides.rutgers.edu/data_R

    Instructor: Ryan Womack

     

  • Data Science Basics: Your questions answered!This link opens in a new window
    Date: Monday, April 21, 2025
    Time: 10:00am - 12:00pm
    Presenter: Burlyn Andall-Blake
    Location: Online
    Division: New Brunswick

    Bring your questions about coding to this open session! Questions about coding in Python, R, SQL, and Git will be answered. Other questions related to coding or job searching as a student are also welcome. Feel free to submit your questions in advance to Burlyn Andall-Blake at bra43@scarletmail.rutgers.edu, or just drop in with your questions. While this is an informal session, we do ask that you register in advance to receive the Zoom link.

  • Intermediate Level Interviewing Skills: Integrating Oral History into Qualitative ResearchThis link opens in a new window
    Date: Tuesday, April 22, 2025
    Time: 1:00pm - 2:00pm
    Presenter: Anastasia Perez
    Location: Online
    Division: New Brunswick

    This intermediate-level workshop is designed for students and researchers looking to refine their interviewing skills and effectively incorporate oral history into qualitative research. We will explore best practices for conducting structured and semi-structured interviews, ethical considerations, data analysis techniques, and strategies for integrating interview data with other qualitative methods. Participants will gain insights into navigating complex interviews, handling sensitive topics, and ensuring rigor in qualitative research. This session is ideal for those with experience in research methods who want to enhance their ability to collect and analyze rich, narrative-driven data. This workshop will be conducted by Anastasia Perez, Qualitative Research Methods Graduate Specialist, New Brunswick Libraries.

  • Uncovering the Findings: A Data-Diverse Perspective on AI Literacy in Korean Immigrant FamiliesThis link opens in a new window
    Date: Tuesday, April 22, 2025
    Time: 2:00pm - 3:30pm
    Presenter: Joh Seo
    Location: Online
    Division: New Brunswick

    In this culminating workshop, participants will review key research findings on AI literacy within Korean immigrant families, considering how cultural context and data diversity affect AI adoption and understanding. The discussion will highlight implications for designing inclusive, culturally responsive AI literacy initiatives, and inform future research and policy directions.

    Workshop conducted via Zoom. Register to receive the Zoom link with instructions on how to connect.

    Supplemental materials are available at https://libguides.rutgers.edu/datascience/python

    Instructor: Joh Seo

  • R for Reproducible Scientific Documents: knitr, rmarkdown, and BeyondThis link opens in a new window
    Date: Thursday, April 24, 2025
    Time: 3:00pm - 4:30pm
    Presenter: Ryan Womack
    Location: Online
    Division: New Brunswick

    The RStudio environment enables the easy creation of documents in various formats (HTML, DOC, PDF) using Rmarkdown, while knitr allows the incorporation of executable R code to produce the tables and figures in those documents. This session introduces these concepts and other packages and practices supporting reproducibility with the R environment.

    Workshop conducted via Zoom.  Register to receive the Zoom link with instructions on how to connect.

    Supplemental materials are available at https://libguides.rutgers.edu/data_R.

    Instructor: Ryan Womack

     

  • Data Science Basics: Your questions answered!This link opens in a new window
    Date: Monday, April 28, 2025
    Time: 10:00am - 12:00pm
    Presenter: Burlyn Andall-Blake
    Location: Online
    Division: New Brunswick

    Bring your questions about coding to this open session! Questions about coding in Python, R, SQL, and Git will be answered. Other questions related to coding or job searching as a student are also welcome. Feel free to submit your questions in advance to Burlyn Andall-Blake at bra43@scarletmail.rutgers.edu, or just drop in with your questions. While this is an informal session, we do ask that you register in advance to receive the Zoom link.

  • Intermediate Level Interviewing Skills: Integrating Oral History into Qualitative ResearchThis link opens in a new window
    Date: Tuesday, April 29, 2025
    Time: 1:00pm - 2:00pm
    Presenter: Anastasia Perez
    Location: Online
    Division: New Brunswick

    This intermediate-level workshop is designed for students and researchers looking to refine their interviewing skills and effectively incorporate oral history into qualitative research. We will explore best practices for conducting structured and semi-structured interviews, ethical considerations, data analysis techniques, and strategies for integrating interview data with other qualitative methods. Participants will gain insights into navigating complex interviews, handling sensitive topics, and ensuring rigor in qualitative research. This session is ideal for those with experience in research methods who want to enhance their ability to collect and analyze rich, narrative-driven data. This workshop will be conducted by Anastasia Perez, Qualitative Research Methods Graduate Specialist, New Brunswick Libraries.

  • Data Publication 2 (publishing to data repositories and creating R packages)This link opens in a new window
    Date: Thursday, May 1, 2025
    Time: 3:00pm - 4:30pm
    Presenter: Ryan Womack
    Location: Online
    Division: New Brunswick

    Sharing your data and code is the essential step in maximizing the impact and usefulness of your research.

    This workshop first reviews repositories for data publication such as Dataverse, ICPSR, OSF, Zenodo, and more. Then we turn to a detailed discussion of building R packages.

    R Packages are an excellent way to distribute collections of data and code. Following on the release of the 2nd edition of Hadley Wickham's R Packages book, this workshop reviews the package creation process, covering prerequisites, the steps involved in creating a complete package, and following up on documentation and testing.

    Part of the Data Topics series of workshops.

    Workshop conducted via Zoom. Register to receive the Zoom link with instructions on how to connect.

    Supplemental materials are available at https://libguides.rutgers.edu/data_topics

    Instructor: Ryan Womack